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Five years ago, I moved back to the US after spending eleven years in Europe as a craftsman. My plan in moving back was to build my own house and to do it using energy saving measures, and I started…Continue

I'm curious to hear from anyone with experience in Multi Family Auditing what your thoughts on the muti-point blower door test are, and if there are ideas for performing a valid audit without the…Continue

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"Anybody can use a blower door to tell you something you already know. The good ones can use the tool to gain an understanding of things they didn't already know.
Ive followed this thread through the last 20 posts. These two…"

"Boy, from the 3D model of this building in Google Earth, it looks like there are about 1000 windows in the building, which means $475 per window! I wonder how each window in the building will be able to save $100/year. "

"I'm sure it is a good product, especially in large institutional or industrial building. My reservation about window products that claim to have a big impact on your residential utility bills is that they seem to assume that you have an…"

"I would just say that I agree with all of your points. I think that testing can be very useful, especially in single family homes, but the priority should always be on saving energy (safely). I work at a research facility, so the more…"

"More on MF Blower Door Testing
I am doing a hands-on three day training, April 12 - 14, 2012 in Aurora, Illinois. It is intended to teach protocols for testing multifamily buildings, how to assess a building, to plan efficient…"

"So what happened here?? Did "phil" get banned??
I quit trying to accomplish anything in this discussion because some juvenile kept spouting off with a bunch of stuff clearly motivated solely by his desire to be a wisea _ _.
Now I see that…"

"Good discussion going here....great forum for this type of more "global" chatter.
Jon, to your website idea. My trepidation here is that a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. The tightening-up of a building…"

"My limited experience is in KY and VA. I haven't yet encountered a house that is below the BAS. I work on a team that audits multifamily buildings, including multi-point blower door testing. My job is to take the data…"

"I am a little confused of the controversy here about testing.
The health care analogy without testing we are simply phoning in a diagnosis
The cost of a blower door test? You buy one blower door and can perform thousands…"

"It is evident that there are different housing scenes in different regions. In much of New England, subdivisions by a single firm are small and scattered. I think most houses were built in different eras, very often as a lone…"

"Thomas Price,
I’d like to pick up your doctor analogy; I think there is much in common between us and doctors (except pay).
I don’t believe that doctors typically prescribe more tests just to make more money. They know that every…"

"I've been on both sides of the fence here. Have I run blower door tests during audits on simple houses where I already knew what I was looking for? Absolutely. If you are called out by a customer in a market-rate setting and…"

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